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An activist marks the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision that overturned Roe v Wade, by displaying a neon sign in support of abortion access in front of the US Supreme Court.

Nearly 65,000 rape-related pregnancies estimated after US abortion bans take effect

While campaigning for the Republican nomination in recent months, Trump’s position has occasionally blamed the extreme policies of the anti-abortion movement for the GOP’s recent electoral losses.

  • Farrah Tomazin

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The National Coronavirus Helpline has closed.

COVID-19 hotline quietly shuttered as more Australians seek boosters

Callers to the National Coronavirus Helpline, still promoted on state and federal health department websites, now hear a message saying it has closed.

  • Mary Ward
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Belgium to test wastewater on planes from COVID-hit China

The new measure is “not meant to track people but to track independently what is happening in China”, health officials say.

Widely available and encouraged COVID-19 testing is one of a series of non-restrictive measures that could slow the impact of the pandemic in Australia.

COVID exploits our year of living dangerously

The gulf between COVID reality and the narrative from Australian leaders could hardly be wider.

  • Brendan Crabb and Mike Toole
Some offices have already begun relaxing their hybrid work policies amid the latest Omicron wave.

No ‘presenteeism’: Small businesses pause office return as winter COVID-19 wave worsens

Some offices are scrapping mandatory office days as COVID and influenza case numbers mount – along with employees’ reluctance to commute to work.

  • Jessica Yun

Family pet or furry human: the high cost to dogs of all our fussing

Fetishising Fido might make us feel good – but is our growing tendency to anthropomorphise our animals and pamper our pooches actually good for them?

  • Fenella Souter
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There are growing calls for Australia’s booster vaccination program to be expanded.

‘A question of when’: Albanese backs fourth COVID shots as workplaces slammed

The call to expand eligibility for extra boosters comes as health experts warn the winter Omicron wave could be the worst outbreak the country has ever seen.

  • James Massola, Aisha Dow and Mary Ward
Nurses wearing PPE arrive at St Basil’s Homes for the Aged on Tuesday.

Fourteen residents infected as another COVID outbreak hits St Basil’s

St Basil’s Homes for the Aged in Fawkner is grappling with another COVID-19 outbreak almost two years after 45 residents died from the virus.

  • Erin Pearson
There’s only so many levers the modern politician can pull.

As it happened: Anthony Albanese tests positive to COVID-19; fallout from Solomon Islands-China security pact continues

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese have gone head-to-head in the first televised debate of the election campaign, and security experts are warning that Chinese ships and aircraft could arrive in Solomon Islands within four weeks.

  • Broede Carmody, Mike Foley and Angus Dalton
FEDERAL ELECTION TEAM 2022. LEADERS DEBATE. POOL IMAGES. 20/4/2022 Sky News / The Courier-Mail People’s Forum with Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese at the Gabba, Brisbane in front of 100 undecided voters, the first debate of the federal election. Picture: Toby Zerna

As it happened: Studio audience decides Anthony Albanese wins first debate against Scott Morrison; quarter of voters still undecided

Scott Morrison says Labor is misleading pensioners, Anthony Albanese has accused the government of telling lies about power prices and both leaders are preparing for the first televised debate of the election campaign.

  • Broede Carmody, Mike Foley, Amelia McGuire and Latika Bourke

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